The Net Advance of Physics:
TOPOLOGICAL FIELD THEORY

FIELD THEORY: TOPOLOGICAL

• General: Introductory:
  • Symmetries, Groups, and Categories by John Baez [2005/05]
• General:
  • Topological Quantum Field Theory: A Progress Report by Jose M. F. Labastida [1995/11]
  • Lectures in Topological Quantum Field Theory by Jose M. F. Labastida and Carlos Lozano [1997/05]
  • Topological Quantum Field Theories -- A Meeting Ground for Physicists and Mathematicians by R. K. Kaul [1999/07]
  • Math and Physics by Jose M. F. Labastida [2001/07]
  • Undergraduate Lecture Notes in Topological Quantum Field Theory by Vladimir G. Ivancevic and Tijana T. Ivancevic [2008/10]
  • Lectures on AKSZ Topological Field Theories for Physicists by Noriaki Ikeda [2011/12]

• Types: CHERN-SIMONS; DONALDSON; SEIBERG-WITTEN; STRING;

• Type: NON-ABELIAN:
  • Topological Quantum Field Theories -- A Meeting Ground for Physicists and Mathematicians by R. K. Kaul [1999/07]

• Type: TWO DIMENSIONAL:
  • Painlevé transcendents and two-dimensional topology by Boris Dubrovin [1996] Five lectures; 117 pages.

• Re: QCD:
  • Topological aspects of QCD by A. Di Giacomo [Nucl. Phys. Proc. Suppl. 47, 136 (1996)]
  • Topology in QCD by Mike Teper [Nucl. Phys. Proc. Suppl. 83, 146 (2000)]
  • Topological objects in QCD by Falk Bruckmann [2007/03]

THE NET ADVANCE OF PHYSICS